Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry
or Dorothy Porter Prize
Subcategory of Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
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History

Also called the Dorothy Porter Award for Emerging Poets.

Notes

  • The Dorothy Porter Prize for Poetry, inaugurated in 2009, is an annual prize paying tribute to 'the much-loved Australian poet [Dorothy Porter] and her legacy of work'. A cash prize, initially of $1000, will be presented for the best poem published in Meanjin in each calendar year.

    Source: Meanjin website, http://www.meanjin.com.au/
    Sighted: 14/07/2009

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2022

winner Tim Loveday for 'Mowing'.

Year: 2020

winner Andrew Harris for 'Stalingrad'.

Year: 2017

winner Andrew Harris for 'To Whom It May Concern'.

Year: 2015

winner Slingshot i "across famed asphalt i", Michael Cooper , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antithesis , no. 25 2015; (p. 2-3) Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 164-165)

Year: 2013

winner Kathryn Hummel For a poem titled 'Sestina: My Fantasy Friend'.

Works About this Award

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pigeon Chloe Wilson , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: Sotto , August 2011;
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